This winter you will be able to enjoy an excellent market gastronomy at the Trocadero Cotobro, in the capable hands of Chef Álvaro Jimenez Pérez, who possesses impressive professional experience, thanks to having worked at some of the best restaurants in the world. Another team member is Pablo del Real Martin, an active chef in…
Russel Nash Christmas Video
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Russell Nash, Vicente Escudero and friends have produced for you an awesome song in time for Christmas…
British Embassy Newsletter – December
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The monthly newsletter sent out by the British Embassy. This month includes information on passport photographs and old-age pension for women.
Christmas and New Year Menus
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Seven restaurants in Almuñécar offer their festive menus here, describing content, times and prices – plenty to choose from if you still haven’t decided on where you will be eating, come Christmas and New Year. Note: Argentina Steakhouse haven’t given us the details yet but it is worth pointing out that they celebrate Christmas Lunch on the 26th; i.e., Boxing Day
The Córdoba Mezquita
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As if there weren’t enough problems in the world, the Bishop of Córdoba decided that this national monument of worldwide fame should be renamed as ‘cathedral,’ as it is one.
Fishy Pork
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How many legs does a pata-negra pig have? Answer: eight, if you divide the total amount of said hams on sale by the pig population of Andalucía. The Junta de Andalucía did their sums and came up with something fishy about the Iberian cured hams market; and an investigation discovered 17 tonnes of bogus produce.…
You Know It’s Getting Rough (I)
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…When drug addicts have to kick the habit because they’re on the dole and can’t afford it anymore, which is precisely what is happening.
You Know It’s Getting Rough (II)
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…When the vans used by the riot police can’t go faster than 90, have unserviceable seatbelts and u/s air-con – is nothing sacred?
You Know It’s Getting Rough (III)
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… When you have 20,000 aspirants line up for a Guardia-Civil selection exam, even though there are only 384 places available. That’s it for the whole of Spain. The majority of those spaces are at the Guardia Civil Academy in Baeza (Jaén).
Waste-of-Space Law
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The coming into being of a new law to protect consumers from spam calls is proving to be as useful as a stretched limousine in Mercadona’s underground car park.